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The Comedy Bus Descends on Washington

The mood on the Keep It Fun America charter bus, which left the Upright Citizens Brigade, a comedy theater in Manhattan, on Monday morning was surprisingly subdued.

Among the 45 passengers were a writer for “Saturday Night Live,” a 26-year-old with several TV and movie deals to his name, many stand-up comedians and improvisers and four campaign volunteers for Barack Obama. The trip — complete with communal blog, blog.keepitfun.biz — was organized by Justin Purnell, 29, who abandoned a career in finance to pursue comedy full-time last year. The itinerary he created included several dinners and parties and watching the inauguration tomorrow from a prime spot, thanks to his father, Marshall Purnell, an architect whose office overlooks the parade route. Justin, who has a reputation as an over-the-top party-thrower, has been planning it since election night.

“I sent the first text on November 5th at 1 a.m.,” he said on board the bus. It was to his dad: “Can I host an inauguration party at your office? Everyone here wants to come down.”

“You don’t even have to ask,” he replied.

Ashley Bezgin, 25, who came with her friend Jessica Conrad, the SNL writer, was hoping to recapture that election night mood. “Everyone was high-fiving me,” she said. “This will be like that times a million.”

Dan Gregor, the screenwriter, volunteered for the Obama campaign, working on phone banks with many comedians. “We felt, like, actual ownership of the political process in some way,” he said. “This felt like the right way to cap that off.”

That sounds awfully sincere. “It’s the death of comedy,” Mr. Gregor said. “We’ve entered the era of sincerity. That’s unfortunate because sincerity is pretty bland. But if it makes the world better, I’ll give up sarcasm.”

From all the Irish here in Australia..God Bless Barack, may the road rise before you and the Sun be always at your back…

And may you be in Heaven half an Hour before the Devil knows your dead…

This is a very funny Video from an Irish band called the Corrigan brothers called “Obama is Irish”.

To all our brother Black and White in the US and all over the rest of the World, lets all focus on the 99.999% of what’s inside that make us All the same not the single things which makes us slightly different in appearance on the outside. If you cut me do I not bleed was it Shylock said?..

What a bunch of sanctimonious children. The sincerity of what? The codswallop and saccharine drivel the media has poured out since the election?

How about some concrete plans instead of vague words creating millions of jobs out of nothing more than scattered tax credits and what will certainly turn into pork barrel projects benefiting the few not the public.

“We’ve entered the era of sincerity. That’s unfortunate because sincerity is pretty bland. But if it makes the world better, I’ll give up sarcasm.”

Rangel can’t do his taxes. Geithner could not pay his. Frank pushes for affordable housing, now few can afford a house and the world economy is tanked. Hillary-what will she and Bill do to bring in money? What’s left to sell to the Chinese? And Dodd, another affordable housing proponent, still can’t come clean about his relations to mortgage lender Countrywide, who gave him a sweetheart deal. And Obama, who helped organize and work to sue banks to make loans to people who couldn’t afford the loans. This is just part of the dysfunction I’m sure the msm will help to keep silent. And just part of the team thats going to fix the disaster they caused.

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